Lincoln called it “a new birth” last time, as though the original had perished.
Certainly, something died between Sumter and Gettysburg, and the artifacts of that fatality remain in evidence to this very hour; manifest in the differences in how the causus belli are taught on the north and south. Lincoln isn’t the hero in Atlanta that he is in Albany.
This present has similar potential.
Beautifully expressed....
.....but as a Southerner myself, Lincoln is certainly esteemed
...it is Sherman we all remember with distaste